illustration + design

Simone Visits The Museum

Simone Visits the Museum is a story about Simone, an inquisitive and vibrant African-American young girl growing up in a neighborhood in Southeast Washington, DC. In the first book of this new series, Simone spends an exciting day with her mother. The highlight is a visit to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Throughout this story, Simone learns lessons about responsibility, paying attention to her surroundings, and the importance of family. Available for purchase here.

Wakanday

I'm super hyped for Black Panther! You can read all about why I did this piece here.

Mel

Walking In The Rain

Freestyle

Random illustrations not done with a specific brief in mind.

Super

Pyrokinetic

Soul

Skin Like Mine

Illustration

Goode Stuff Publishing

Skin Like Mine is a children's book that is illustrated by me and written by Tiffany Elle Burgess. The story tackles the topic of intra-racism and colorism, all through the eyes of a ten year old girl.

Brooklyn College Community Partnership

Concept Art & Illustration

The Brooklyn College Community Partnership is an excellent organization that works with middle school and high school students in arts, music, technology, and more. As a former teaching artist there, I was asked to create some characters that would be used on their new website and program. Here are some final designs and concept sketches that I came up with.

The OKUN

Concept Art & Illustration

The OKUN is a short comic book project in the works, written by Robert K. Jeffrey and illustrated by me.

Nationwide

Concept Art

Here are some designs done for a Nationwide commercial pitch, beginning with initial concepts that I came up with before moving into a more concrete style that was decided upon later. This was a team effort, where we often did clean, revised drawings on top of another artist's loose sketches (you can see the comparison drawings for the backgrounds at the end). Artist Christine Kim helped with the foreground art and characters in the colored piece, while I revised and colored the background elements.

Route 3

Illustration

Fan art for Route 3, an indie comic written by Robert Jeffrey and drawn by Sean Hill under the Terminus Media imprint. Check it out here:

Jolly Rancher

Unused character designs for a Jolly Rancher commercial pitch. The objective was something bright and fun, just like the candy.

APB: Artists Against Police Brutality

Submission for the Artists Against Police Brutality anthology headed by John Jennings, Bill Campbell, and Jason Rodriguez. An essay I wrote was also included in the anthology.

APB was one of the most important projects I've contributed to in the past year, and I was very humbled and happy to have been included.

Fiber One

Concept Art

Character concept sketches for various Fiber One spots. The goal was to show character emotion while maintaining a semi-realistic look.

The Forgotten

Trapped

Storyboard Artist

Boards from a music video pitch called "Trapped."

The objective was to create something sexy, surreal, and fleeting.

Mojo Thunder

Storyboard Artist

I had the pleasure of working with director Kris Merc on The Peach King's "Mojo Thunder" animated music video. Here are some of the preliminary storyboards that I contributed to the project as well as the full video produced by Ataboy Studios.

Country Crock

Concept Art

Character and concept designs from the conceptual stage of a Country Crock commercial.

The objective was to design objects that could be brought to life and reflected the range of a child's imagination, from toys made out of wood to giant monsters created out of Play-Doh.

Eyetalian Frenchip

Storyboard Artist

Storyboards for Eyetalian Frenchip, a music video by CJ Fly of Pro Era directed by Kris Merc and Ahmed Klink of Sunday Afternoon and produced by Juan June Medrano

Domestos

Concept Art

A pitch that I helped out on at The Mill for their client, Unilever. The goal was to create an army of germs that were nasty, but cute.